Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2023

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 1


 * 1) AC vs refrigerator
 * 2) Blueshift
 * 3) Longest earthquake?

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 2


 * 1) Lucky charm in cockpit
 * 2) Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 3


 * 1) Locating pre-clovis sites
 * 2) Huygens probe

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 4


 * 1) Mothball smell
 * 2) Colors: What's unique in our planet, that lets us see this photon as yellow, rather than redshifted or blueshifted as seen by another galaxy's inhabitants?
 * 3) Phase diagrams of the noble gases

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 6


 * 1) Mixing foods into poison
 * 2) Bird head movements
 * 3) Glacier models

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 7


 * 1) "I'm Julian and this is..."
 * 2) Atmospheric pressure changes and water boiling

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 8


 * 1) Bee in balloon
 * 2) Cylinder capacity
 * 3) A space probe to move Asteroid Apophis in 2029?

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 9


 * 1) Evolutionary adaptation time and survival
 * 2) Coumaric

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 10


 * 1) Why is the top quark more massive than the Higgs boson?
 * 2) Tadpoles that never grew up
 * 3) Can stratospheric water vapour be measured through ice cores?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 11


 * 1) What's the product of a collision between a neutrino and an anti-neutrino, when their combined energy is not sufficient for creating the Z boson's rest mass?
 * 2) IQ Bell Curve

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 12


 * 1) How old is a molecule of water
 * 2) Railroad question
 * 3) UK metric system

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 13


 * 1) twins and paternity tests

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 14


 * 1) Hippo in the sky
 * 2) Niagara Falls through a straw

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 15


 * 1) Biology -- corrections

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 16


 * 1) Tree canopy formations

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 18


 * 1) Organ pipe

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 19


 * 1) Pi
 * 2) Why is argininosuccinic acid a basic amino acid?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 20


 * 1) Control of mitochondrial gene expression
 * 2) Odd-indexed chemical element stability
 * 3) Fractions

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 21


 * 1) Why the gravitational constant is the physical constant which is the hardest to measure?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 22


 * 1) Bamboo that blossoms once every 130 years

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 23


 * 1) Is producing tetraploid human embryo possible?
 * 2) Current dhole population?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 24


 * 1) Which pure metal is more prone to corrosion in air: magnesium or samarium?
 * 2) Etymology of hydrogen
 * 3) Does calculating the (upper bound of) neutrino mass, rely (also) on the mass energy equivalence?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 25


 * 1) Replacing a dishwasher

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 26


 * 1) Why so many unpublished studies?
 * 2) max use temperature in Ar/N2 > max use temperature in vacuum

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 27


 * 1) Is it possible that europium is more unstable than bismuth?
 * 2) Electron capture vs. beta plus decay
 * 3) UK metric system (update)
 * 4) Last passenger
 * 5) Where was the camera on the Apollo lunar lander?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 28


 * 1) density of mercury

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 29


 * 1) Why the IPK must be stored in air?
 * 2) Allele order in genotype
 * 3) Pi
 * 4) Digging to the other side of the world
 * 5) Eternal return

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 30


 * 1) gallium and carbon
 * 2) The forces acting on my cell phone
 * 3) Wisconsinite barn owls

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 December 31


 * 1) Last year Q - Giant prokaryotes' strangeness
 * 2) US metric units